Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic

Critic reviews

• IIGN

  Steve Butts · Mar 29, 2010

  5.7

  You have to accept that if you want a new submarine game, you'll just have to make the best of it. In terms of positive features, this one looks stunning and really delivers those intense wolfpack hunt moments. Taking out a pair of destroyer escorts and then picking off the unprotected convoy is an amazing experience, but you're constantly distracted by the bugs and poor design decisions. We hope that with another few months the community will iron out the worst of these.

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• GGameSpot

  Brett Todd · Mar 24, 2010

  5.0

  It's going to take a lot of patches and user-made mods to get Silent Hunter 5 into a playable, satisfying state. Ubisoft's track record with this series and the incredible dedication of the game's fan base mean that this is likely going to happen, sooner or later, but for the time being, you would be well advised to get your submarining fix from Silent Hunter 3 or 4, two extremely impressive games that have been well seasoned with patches and mods.

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• GWGame Watcher

  Ewan Aiton · Apr 19, 2010

  5.3

  Silent Hunter 5: Battle for the Atlantic would have been a fitting and enjoyable experience had it not been so inexplicable demanding on hardware, buggy and generally frustrating. Poor coding and Ubisoft’s paranoid DRM successfully manages to torpedo any enjoyment to be had from playing this game. Sadly, Silent Hunter 5 helps the submarine sim genre to sink down to new depths.

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• EGEuro Gamer

  Quintin Smith · Mar 10, 2010

  5.0

  Staggeringly for a company introducing something like this, this Sunday and Monday Ubisoft's servers were in fact brought down, and myself and many others were left with a game we couldn't play. There's no way of knowing whether this was just the growing pains of a new service, but it's worth remembering all the same, especially so when a patched Silent Hunter 4 can be found cheaper and is, for now, the better game.

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• 3J3D Juegos

  Álvaro Castellano · Mar 17, 2010

  8.5

  Con un mayor pulido y testeo estaríamos hablando del mejor título de las series hasta la fecha, pero hay algunos problemas que impiden que el videojuego esté a la altura de sus predecesores. Sin embargo esto no debe distraernos del hecho de que Silent Hunter 5 continúa siendo un notabilísimo producto de la saga, y que sus incorporaciones jugables lo reafirman como uno de los mejores simuladores del mercado.

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• GGameStar.de

  Patrick C. Lück · Mar 08, 2010

  6.8

  Den mittlerweile gestiegenen Ansprüchen an Realismus, Präsentation oder Bedienung wird Silent Hunter 5 nicht mehr gerecht, von der massiven Anhäufung an Fehlern ganz zu schweigen. Wer auf einen guten Teil Realismus verzichten kann (mir gefällt zum Beispiel das neue Rollenspielsystem) oder sich intensiv mit den Mods der Community beschäftigt, kann durchaus Spaß mit dem Spiel haben, in dem einiges funktioniert, vieles aber leider nicht. Ob Sie zusätzlich noch mit dem restriktiven Kopierschutz samt Internet-Zwang leben können oder nicht, liegt in Ihrem Ermessen.

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